Evaluating the quality of nursing care on a BMT unit can be difficult and frequently does not include the consumer of that activity, the patient. Likewise, post-discharge patient satisfaction surveys usually afford little information about what the patient thought about their nursing care. The BMT Department of our center identified the need to evaluate the quality of nursing care on our inpatient unit. The unit-based research council coordinated with the quality improvement council to develop and implement a project to evaluate the BMT patients’ perception of nursing care on our inpatient unit. The stated project objectives include assessing the patients’ willingness and ability to complete the forms, evaluating the nursing staff’s willingness to approach patients about the project, identify the strengths and weaknesses on nursing care on our unit, and evaluating how patient-centered our care is perceived to be.The council members sought out an established and accepted patient satisfaction tool. After an extensive search, the 19 item Oncology Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale (OPPQNCS) was thought to be the most relevant with previously demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity for oncology patients. Permission has been obtained from the author, Dr. Laurel Radwin, and this study will begin to accrue patients in September of 2003 with a target number of one hundred patients. Surveys will be distributed at patient discharge classes, which patients attend approximately one week prior to discharge. Locked return boxes will be located in patient accessible areas around the unit to ensure anonymity. Based upon admission rates, it is anticipated that data collection will be complete by December. Descriptive statistics will be used to evaluate items on the OPPQNCS, return rates will be calculated, and staff will be polled as to any difficulty approaching patients. Evaluating the quality of nursing care on a BMT unit can be difficult and frequently does not include the consumer of that activity, the patient. Likewise, post-discharge patient satisfaction surveys usually afford little information about what the patient thought about their nursing care. The BMT Department of our center identified the need to evaluate the quality of nursing care on our inpatient unit. The unit-based research council coordinated with the quality improvement council to develop and implement a project to evaluate the BMT patients’ perception of nursing care on our inpatient unit. The stated project objectives include assessing the patients’ willingness and ability to complete the forms, evaluating the nursing staff’s willingness to approach patients about the project, identify the strengths and weaknesses on nursing care on our unit, and evaluating how patient-centered our care is perceived to be. The council members sought out an established and accepted patient satisfaction tool. After an extensive search, the 19 item Oncology Patients’ Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale (OPPQNCS) was thought to be the most relevant with previously demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity for oncology patients. Permission has been obtained from the author, Dr. Laurel Radwin, and this study will begin to accrue patients in September of 2003 with a target number of one hundred patients. Surveys will be distributed at patient discharge classes, which patients attend approximately one week prior to discharge. Locked return boxes will be located in patient accessible areas around the unit to ensure anonymity. Based upon admission rates, it is anticipated that data collection will be complete by December. Descriptive statistics will be used to evaluate items on the OPPQNCS, return rates will be calculated, and staff will be polled as to any difficulty approaching patients.